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Yeah bruh, your head is completely fucked if you think that tariffs, labor shortages, and selling $8 trillion in bonds is going to help you out at the fucking grocery store. Idiots gonna learn, I tell you what. Pardon my use of the general “you”, I don’t mean you in particular.
I totally agree with you. People are just plain stupid, and right wing politicians are really good at grifting idiots.
Harris and Biden both knew they'd take a hit for taking AIPAC money and they decided they were ok with that risk. That seems pretty stupid to me considering how close elections have been and how 88% of Americans are against the gaza war crimes.
Many people don't believe that Trump will actually do the things he said he'd do, because it wasn't that bad his last term and they see the reactions to his first election as hysterical in retrospect. Those that believe he will do the things he said -- a minority in his coalition I think -- are wingnuts that are in favor of those things.
It's all stupid, and leaves out that the "deep state", institutions, and moderating voices in his administration -- which Trump is looking to eliminate in his second term -- constrained him and kept the country largely business as usual despite his shenanigans. The adults in the room had the effect of saving us from a lot of Trump's worst impulses, and for people who do not pay attention to politics this made the Trump-Pence administration retroactively palatable.